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Dedeaux

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I've come into a pile of parts and am able to make at least one complete system. I have also stumbled onto unRaid after being intrigued by the infamous linustech videos on multiple gamers on a single system.

 

I've got the following parts together in a booting, working system (tried ubuntu):

 

ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16

2x E5-2687W 0 @ 3.10GHz (also have a pair of E5-2670s)

128GB ECC (MB fully populated)

EVGA 850 G2 PSU

GTX960 4GB

 

other parts available:

1xGTX960 2GB, 1xGT730

various PCIe cards - USB 3.0, Fenvi Wifi/BT from old Hackintosh

Drives-a-plenty -- just not many SSDs

 

I currently run Ubuntu server on another machine, with docker serving up plex, sonarr and the like. I have a homemade router running untangle as well.

 

Is it a long shot to consolidate everything onto the above machine, and even virtualize a Windows 10 daily driver for light gaming, Sierra for fun, Windows 7 (move a vm from my MBPro used for work)?

 

Any glaring oversight? Could I scale this down and still have a nicely performing set of vms?

 

Thanks for any input.

 

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16 minutes ago, Dedeaux said:
I've come into a pile of parts and am able to make at least one complete system. I have also stumbled onto unRaid after being intrigued by the infamous linustech videos on multiple gamers on a single system.
 
I've got the following parts together in a booting, working system (tried ubuntu):
 
ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16
2x E5-2687W 0 @ 3.10GHz (also have a pair of E5-2670s)
128GB ECC (MB fully populated)
EVGA 850 G2 PSU
GTX960 4GB
 
other parts available:
1xGTX960 2GB, 1xGT730
various PCIe cards - USB 3.0, Fenvi Wifi/BT from old Hackintosh
Drives-a-plenty -- just not many SSDs
 
I currently run Ubuntu server on another machine, with docker serving up plex, sonarr and the like. I have a homemade router running untangle as well.
 
Is it a long shot to consolidate everything onto the above machine, and even virtualize a Windows 10 daily driver for light gaming, Sierra for fun, Windows 7 (move a vm from my MBPro used for work)?
 
Any glaring oversight? Could I scale this down and still have a nicely performing set of vms?
 
Thanks for any input.
 


Just download the trial and see if you like it. Make sure you have VT-d and VT-x enabled in your bios so passthrough works.
Don't keep any data dives your care about in the box while testing and use your SSDs as a cache dive.
For tutorials check out the forum members gridrunner's youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDfnUn74N0WeAPvMqTOrtA

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